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The interaction quickly became a visual symbol of the deep rivalries in the AI industry, particularly between OpenAI and Anthropic, though Altman sought to brush off any deeper meaning. "I didn't know what was happening," Altman later said in a video interview with Indian media outlet Moneycontrol. He said he was "confused, like when (Modi) grabbed my hand and put it up, and I just wasn't sure what we were supposed to be doing." Anthropic declined to comment.

SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA:XSD) offers equal-weight exposure to the semiconductor sector, a structure that amplifies both opportunity and risk. The fund has gained 43.15% over the past year as AI infrastructure spending supercharged demand for chips across the supply chain. The equal-weight structure - which gives smaller names the same influence as giants - has both amplified those gains and introduced drag from legacy players like Intel that have not kept pace with the AI cycle.

"As part of the alleged scheme to commit trade secret theft, the defendants used their employment to obtain access to confidential and sensitive information," the DoJ said in a press release. "The defendants then exfiltrated confidential and sensitive documents, including trade secrets related to processor security and cryptography and other technologies, from Google and other technology companies to unauthorized third-party and personal locations, including to work devices associated with each other's employers, and to Iran."

This role is all about thinking how you can use your experience and keep yourself up to pace with the advancement that is happening in the technology world. As CIO, you must ensure you understand market insights, so that you know what's happening in the business, what's happening in the industry, and then continue to push your stakeholders on future-proofing your organisation.

Last month, I found myself sitting in what looked like the world's most boring strip mall restaurant. Beige walls, no signage except for a tiny brass plaque, and a parking lot filled with understated luxury cars. I'd been invited by a source who'd built three successful companies before turning forty. As we ate perfectly prepared Dover sole at 7 PM on a Tuesday, surrounded by other quietly powerful diners, something clicked. This wasn't about exclusivity or showing off. This was about something else entirely.

Carl arrived to find an enormous to-do list and a very busy IT team who were strangely unwelcoming. Not long after starting, Carl was assigned a job in the prison. As it was his first visit, a colleague named "Mike" showed him the ropes. Carl found it disconcerting. "I was introduced to various guards and went through the first security checkpoint," he told On Call. "The heavy iron door slamming behind me was a bit nerve-wracking. The second wasn't so bad."

Instead of attempting to make the 3D social platform work for both VR and mobile, Meta is "explicitly separating" its "Quest VR platform from our Worlds platform" and "shifting the focus of Worlds to be almost exclusively mobile," Samantha Ryan, Reality Labs' VP of content, says in a blog post. The new approach sets Meta up to better compete with platforms like Roblox and Fortnite, which also offer user-generated experiences that can be played on your phone.

A now-staple name in the AI world, CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) is sitting on a massive $55.6 billion revenue backlog, nearly double what it had just one quarter earlier. This figure alone makes it one of the most talked-about AI infrastructure plays among retail investors. But the conversation on Reddit has shifted from excitement to caution over the past month, with sentiment cooling from bullish (~61) to neutral (~41) as traders weigh the company's execution risks against its massive growth potential.

Uber will invest $100 million to build out public fast-charging stations across the U.S. and Europe, the company said Wednesday. The move aims to provide a backbone for its rapidly expanding autonomous vehicle (AV) ambitions, which now span the globe and include more than 20 partnerships. Now the company is turning to an absolutely essential piece of the puzzle: charging. Uber is partnering with private charging networks to build the stations, offering them minimum utilization guarantees.

At the annual Spring Festival Gala, the Lunar New Year show in China, humanoid robots from Chinese startup Unitree Robotics flipped, lunged, and swung swords and nunchucks just feet from child performers in a tightly choreographed kung fu routine.

The emails show that Holman and Epstein became acquainted as far back as 2010. Politico's reporting claimed that Epstein made plans to meet with the technologist in 2013, although it isn't clear if the sex offender actually attended. Emails from the evidence bundle also appear to show that in the same year, Holman planned to stay at Epstein's residence in New York City, and introduced Epstein to other industry figures.

What are the Joseph C. Belden Awards? Named after Joseph C. Belden - a pioneer in connectivity and communications - the award honors emerging companies and breakthrough solutions driving meaningful change across connected industries. From digital infrastructure and cybersecurity to industrial automation and intelligent operations, the program recognizes technologies that deliver measurable, real-world impact. What are we looking for? A critical focus for 2026 is IT/OT convergence, highlighting solutions that bridge information technology and operational systems.

Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) shares have surged 65% year-to-date as the company transformed from an overlooked storage provider into an AI infrastructure powerhouse. The stock has grown significantly as investors recognized the company's pivot from consumer storage to AI infrastructure, reflecting a complete business reinvention driven by insatiable demand from hyperscale data centers. The catalyst? Western Digital announced its entire 2026 HDD production capacity is 100% sold out, signaling unprecedented demand from hyperscale AI data centers.

But Snapchat, with its package of user-aligned add-on tools, has clearly tapped into a valuable opportunity, using its audience nous to build add-on tools that users want to pay for, and enhance the Snapchat experience. And Snapchat definitely needs to diversify its revenue intake. But there's only so much ads that Snap can push in front of its users, so it also needs to consider other opportunities.

You're not going to like the answer to this. If you want to solve comments and video descriptions disappearing on YouTube, the only current answer is to disable your ad blocker. You might wonder if privacy-focused browsers like Opera GX or Brave can circumvent this ban: the answer is... Mixed. I tested it myself on Brave, using its built-in ad blocker, and it was still working for me.

Google is losing one of its main sources of information for its Knowledge Graph, the CIA World Factbook. This was a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency between 1962 and 2026 with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. Glenn Gabe posted about this on X, and noted that The CIA World Factbook is sunsetting. On February 4, 2026, the CIA announced that The World Factbook was discontinued.

Specifically, analysts pulled some numbers out of their... hat, and decided that Amazon would end up spending $150 billion on CapEx for 2026. Amazon then proclaimed that it was going to be a lot closer to $200 billion ("no worries, you only missed by the GDP of Croatia"), and the industry spent the next two business weeks just beating the absolute stuffing out of their stock for it. How badly? Shares fell 11% after hours, then kept falling for nine straight sessions - the longest losing streak since 2006 - erasing more than $450 billion in market value. That's more than the entire market cap of most companies that analysts are supposedly experts at evaluating.

Nested virtualization involves running a hypervisor inside another hypervisor. It is not an entirely bonkers idea because it offers the chance to create a test or simulation environment for the collection of linked VMs that makes up many enterprise IT setups. The technique can also be useful in production for containerised workloads, which often see tools like Kubernetes and Docker run in a VM, and every container running in its own VM.

IT and tech suppliers to the UK public sector with the fastest-growing revenues increased incomes by an average of 1.8x and £3.8m each between 2023 and 2025. The fastest-growing companies were in the defence sector, with one company - SRC UK - growing revenue by 16x across the period. Those are some of the findings of public sector IT research specialist Tussell in its annual Tech200 report on the fastest-growing tech suppliers to the public sector.

The London Internet Exchange (Linx) is set to upgrade its point of presence (PoP) at the Lunar Digital datacentre in Manchester. Over 15 years ago, the then UK government established the Northern Powerhouse to accelerate economic growth in the north of England, centred in Manchester, and the after being an industrial hub since the Victorian times, the city is continuing to establish itself as a digital focal point.

A quick ask around my Whatsapp groups tells me why it's appealing to the millennial female. "It's the source of all knowledge and free of influencers," says one friend. "I use it because it's real people, and ChatGPT is soulless and makes me sad," says another. "I like how old school the platform is - it feels quite separate from adverts, image saturation, influencing," says a third.

Did you know you can teach ChatGPT how to respond to certain requests? Not only can you give ChatGPT instructions, but they'll stick (mostly) for every session. This feature is called Custom Instructions. It lives in the Personalization tab of ChatGPT's settings. In a minute, I'll show you a set of really powerful directives that can help make you super productive.

Applied Materials ( NASDAQ:AMAT) surged after reporting Q1 revenue of $7.01 billion and beating earnings estimates. CEO Gary Dickerson said on the earnings call: "Applied Materials delivered strong results in our fiscal first quarter, fueled by the acceleration of industry investments in AI computing... we expect to grow our semiconductor equipment business over 20% this calendar year." The guidance signals sustained capital equipment spending as chipmakers race to expand AI infrastructure capacity.

This week's recap shows how small gaps are turning into big entry points. Not always through new exploits, often through tools, add-ons, cloud setups, or workflows that people already trust and rarely question. Another signal: attackers are mixing old and new methods. Legacy botnet tactics, modern cloud abuse, AI assistance, and supply-chain exposure are being used side by side, whichever path gives the easiest foothold.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. The Google search ranking volatility remained heated through the weekend. A new study says Google AI Overviews clicks are shifting from organic clicks to paid clicks. Google warned about serving "not available" content with JavaScript.

X experienced an outage on Monday morning, with tens of thousands of users reporting that the platform failed to load across both desktop and mobile. The disruption began around 8:02 a.m. ET, as per Downdetector data, and quickly escalated in the U.S. and U.K. Monday's outage follows a similar issue that befell the social media platform in mid-January. Shortly after 8 a.m. ET, Downdetector showed a sharp rise in incident reports.

Elon Musk's social media platform experienced a global outage today, leaving millions of users unable to access the service for several hours. The disruption affected users across North America, Europe, Asia, and other regions, prompting widespread frustration and speculation about the cause. According to reports from users on other platforms, attempts to log in or refresh feeds resulted in error messages or blank screens.